CRFG-Redwood exhibited at Santa Rosa’s National Heirloom Exposition. Dubbed the “The World’s Fair of Pure Food,” it was host to over 20,000 farmers and gardeners! The expo featured over 300 vendors, including thousands of Heirloom varieties from across America. CRFG … Continue reading
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CRFG Redwood Chapter held its annual Summer Plant sale and fundraiser in July at the Original Organic Farmer’s Market behind Sutter Medical Center. Dozens of varieties of rare fruit trees and plants were sold, raising almost $2,500 for further charitable … Continue reading
A Bark Grafting and Citrus grafting demonstration was held at the Summer Greenwood Scion Exchange at a member’s orchard. David Ulmer demonstrated grafting citrus with bud and cleft grafts. Ray Sheehy sent certified clean rootstock, and Dick Kirk ordered and brought many varieties … Continue reading
CRFG member volunteers gathered at Keith Borglum’s place to graft and pot up 150+ trees to be ready for the big sale fundraiser event in July. Thanks Keith for hosting and providing these pictures! … Continue reading
We hosted our annual scion exchange to a crowd of several hundred fruit enthusiasts. Hundreds of varieties of fruit trees were available as free scions, plus bare root and live plants offered by vendors. We were lucky in receiving our … Continue reading
CRFG Member Maile Pieri attended the 2016 Festival of Fruit in San Luis Obispo County and provided the following writeup and photos. Thanks, Maile! Black Diamond Vermicompost in Paso Robles. CRFG members were given an amazing tour, by Cristy … Continue reading
We held our annual scion exchange at the Santa Rosa Veteran’s center. Hundreds of people attended this community event, collecting free scions from hundreds of varieties of fruit trees. Rootstocks were available for sale at a nominal price, and CRFG … Continue reading
CRFG-Redwood members travelled to San Jose to collect scions from the many varieties of fruit trees at CRFG-maintained Prusch Park.The scions will be used to share with people at scion exchanges throughout Northern California. Photos courtesy of Maile Pieri. … Continue reading
Rachel and all officers were re-elected. Lots of interesting fruit to taste. Rachel displayed her school insect education project. Our Sonoma State grant recipient gave a presentation on his planned use to genetically identify the avocado trees around Sonoma County, … Continue reading
A great crowd assembled at the Ace in the Hole cider pub for CRFG Redwood’s annual apple tasting. We tasted 52 apples, 16 European pears and 5 Asian pears from 13 states and 10 countries. Remember that on any given … Continue reading